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Oct 02, 2015 at 11:18

At the beginning of this week, oil major Shell announced that it will indefinitely postpone (read: completely abandon) its Arctic drilling operations in the Chukchi Sea…

Oct 02, 2015 at 10:32

Ok folks, here are five factors to consider on this first Friday in October: 1) It is Nonfarm Friday, and official US employment data has just…

Oct 01, 2015 at 17:17

Primary season doesn’t begin for another 4 months, and the general election is still more than a year out. Undoubtedly, no lead is safe, but the…

Oct 01, 2015 at 16:53

It’s no secret that Africa’s economic development has been stifled by the shortage of electricity across the continent. The Africa Progress Report 2015 puts the

Oct 01, 2015 at 16:42

Mexico improved upon its disappointing July auction in its latest round; an improvement that could lead to deeper investment in the country’s oil sector. In…

Oct 01, 2015 at 16:31

There is a trend that is emerging in the energy sector that has the potential to change the way consumers purchase their fuel in coming years.…

Oct 01, 2015 at 10:59

On September 30, a federal judge struck down the U.S. Department of Interior’s regulations on hydraulic fracturing, a blow to the Obama administration’s efforts at putting…

Oct 01, 2015 at 10:50

Eighty-seven years to the day after Duke Ellington recorded ‘The Mooche’, and China is mooching off for a five-day holiday after delivering some better-than-expected manufacturing data.…

Sep 30, 2015 at 16:35

The disappointing exploration results in the Chukchi Sea for Royal Dutch Shell was a huge blow to the company, and will set back oil development in the Arctic indefinitely.…

Sep 30, 2015 at 16:07

Few potential investments out there are as divisive as Tesla. On one side, bulls see the electric vehicle maker as a fundamentally different kind of car company and one that…

Sep 30, 2015 at 15:41

Bill Richardson could teach Donald Trump something about the art of the deal.He has done a lot of them. Richardson also wrote a book about the art of…

Sep 30, 2015 at 10:15

The ongoing slump in oil prices is forcing Saudi Arabia to retrench and bring home tens of billions of dollars that it has overseas. Bloomberg

Sep 30, 2015 at 10:07

And there is an exciting day in store on this final day of Q3, with all manner of information to digest. Japan kicked things off overnight,…

Sep 29, 2015 at 17:11

Argentina has often been held up as the next most likely location for a shale revolution, with some of the largest shale oil and gas reserves in the world.

Sep 29, 2015 at 17:01

With Congress having failed to stop the Iran international nuclear agreement by September 17, opponents of the deal are now licking their wounds and focusing on the next steps. The…

Sep 29, 2015 at 16:15

Most people believe that low oil prices are good for the United States, since the discretionary income of consumers will rise. There is the added benefit that Peak Oil must…

Sep 29, 2015 at 13:08

The major news from the week is Royal Dutch Shell’s (NYSE: RDS.A) decision to scrap its Arctic drilling program. The future of oil development in the U.S. Arctic depended heavily…

Sep 29, 2015 at 10:16

Despite dark clouds hanging over the commodity complex, crude prices are rebounding thus far after yesterday’s clobbering. We have had quite the data deluge overnight, led by a late-month flood…

Sep 28, 2015 at 17:19

Recently, Bloomberg reported that Iran’s oil minister had spoken with Mexican officials with regard to stabilizing the oil market. Iran claims that, if OPEC decides to more actively manage…

Sep 28, 2015 at 17:03

Germany has long been a pioneer in the field of renewable energy, generating a record 78 percent of its power consumption from renewables in July of…